keystrokes?

[Ray_Barber]

i want a script that will do keystrokes i dont no how to go about this. what i nead is to tell textedit etc. to do the keystroke command-n so i can open multiple windowsthis would be very handy to me :P.
a script that would open multiples of the same thing would also work if you try to open more than one of the same thing it uses the same window :(.

[Rob]

If you have or install GUI Scripting, this should work:

tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	repeat 5 times
		keystroke "n" with command down
	end repeat
end tell

The same can be accomplished with Extra Suites:

tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "Extra Suites"
	repeat 5 times
		type key "n" with command
	end repeat
end tell

– Rob

[jonn8]

Um, why use keystrokes? TextEdit is scriptable so try:

tell application “TextEdit”
activate
repeat 5 times
make new document at beginning
end repeat
end tell

or, if I understand your query:

tell application “TextEdit”
activate
set the_file to (choose file) as alias
open the_file
set the_text to text of document 1
repeat 4 times
make new document at beginning
set text of document 1 to the_text
end repeat
end tell

Jon

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[Rob]

Um, why use keystrokes? TextEdit is scriptable so try:

tell application “TextEdit”
activate
repeat 5 times
make new document at beginning
end repeat
end tell

That’s what I thought too but I tried to make new windows and it failed. I didn’t even try to make a new document. :?

– Rob (the one who missed the simple solution)

[Ray_Barber]

Thank you so much this is awsome. The first one does exactly what i neaded.